GEOS 596- Recent Progress in Cordilleran Tectonics, Reading List
Some key background papers dealing with plate arrays off Western US during
Jurassic-Cretaceous:
1. Dickinson, W.R., 2013, Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstructions of Great Basin
geotectonics (Nevada-Utah, USA): Geosphere, August, v. 9, no. 4, in press.
Recent geophysical studies:
2. Sigloch and Mihalynuk, 2013, Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of
Cordilleran North America: Nature 496, 50-56.
3. Hildebrand, R.S., 2009, Did westward subduction cause Cretaceous-Tertiary orogeny in the
North American Cordillera? GSA Spec. Pap. 495.
4. Sigloch, K., McQuarrie, N., Nolet, G., 2008. Two-stage subduction history under
North America inferred from multiple-frequency tomography. Nat. Geosci. 1, 458–462.
5. Sigloch, K., 2011. Mantle provinces under North America from multifrequency P
wave tomography. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 12, Q02W08.
6. Schmandt, B. and E. D. Humphreys, 2010, Complex subduction and small-scale
convection revealed by body wave tomography of the western U.S. upper mantle. Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, 297, 435-445, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.047.
van der Meer et al., 2010 Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle
slab remnants: Nature Geoscience 3, 36 – 40.
Liu, L. and D.R. Stegman, 2011, Segmentation of the Farallon slab, Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett., 311, 1-10.
Darold & Humphreys, 2013 Upper mantle seismic structure beneath the Pacific
Northwest: A plume-triggered delamination origin for the Columbia River flood basalt
eruptions: EPSL 365 (2013) 232–242.
Pavlis, T., et al., 2012, Unraveling the geometry of the Farallon plate: Synthesis of three
dimensional imaging results from USArray: Tectonophysics 532–535 (2012) 82–102.
Jones et al., 2011, Hydrodynamic mechanism for the Laramide orogeny: Geosphere
February 2011; v. 7; no. 1; p. 1–19.
Liu, L., M. Gurnis, M. Seton, J. Saleeby, R. D. Muller, and J. M. Jackson, 2010, The role
of oceanic plateau subduction in the Laramide orogeny, Nat. Geosci., 3, 353–357.
Long, S.P., 2012, Magnitudes and spatial patterns of erosional exhumation in the Sevier
hinterland, eastern Nevada and western Utah, USA: Insights from a Paleogene
paleogeologic map: Geosphere, August 2012, v. 8, no. 4, p. 881–901.
Dickinson, W.R., 2013 Provenance of the Paleogene Colton Formation (Uinta Basin) and
Cretaceous–Paleogene provenance evolution in the Utah foreland: Evidence from U-Pb
ages of detrital zircons, paleocurrent trends, and sandstone petrofacies: Geosphere,
August 2012, v. 8, no. 4, p. 854–880.
Tentative schedule
Sept. 6
Bill Dickinson: Dickinson (2013) Geosphere paper.
Sept. 13
George Gehrels: Sigloch and Mihalynuk (2013)
Sept 20
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Oct. 25
GSA week, no seminar
Nov. 1
Nov. 8
Nov. 15
Nov. 22
Nov. 29
Thanksgiving